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>> here's the interesting thing, toyota has really upped the incentive. they're now giving more money in the hood than ever before. they almost outsold gm last month despite all of the bad publicity. so americans are very price savvy. they'll cross the street to save 10 cents on a hamburger. if the car's cheap enough, they'll buy anything. >> that whole bailout wasn't too popular on the hill among republicans. so what kind of congressional reactions have been to that news? are people saying, hallelujah? >> well, clearly this deal, as you remember in 2008, the republicans blocked the bailout from happening to save gm and chrysler. president bush stepped in and did it on his own using tarp. and i think there's a little bit of a wait a minute, yes, it's great news they're paying it back but they're using unused bailout funds to repay the taxpayers. this isn't money they earned by selling cars. >> is there any larger lesson we can take from the fact that they were able to repay this money about the health of the broader economy in the midwestern united states
>> here's the interesting thing, toyota has really upped the incentive. they're now giving more money in the hood than ever before. they almost outsold gm last month despite all of the bad publicity. so americans are very price savvy. they'll cross the street to save 10 cents on a hamburger. if the car's cheap enough, they'll buy anything. >> that whole bailout wasn't too popular on the hill among republicans. so what kind of congressional reactions have been to that news? are...
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host: what is your outlook on the help of toyota? guest: they paid off the $16.4 billion fine because they had recall information from regulators. we are in a strange time were there are many investigations ongoing. there's not a lot of action so far. toyota is spending heavily on tents -- on incentives. they out sold general motors for one month which was pretty rare. uço will cost toyota hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions of dollars to get through this period of recalls. they will have to work to amend its reputation with the american people. that will take a lot of time. this was the same thing as firestone a few years ago. it will be a heavy lift for toyota going forward they are strong company financially and they have the resources host: our guest writes for "the detroit free press." thank you for your time. coming up, we'll take a look at how the senate works especially specific rules the use today -- to debate. >> lets look at another winner. we ask students to tell us about one of the country's greatest strengt
host: what is your outlook on the help of toyota? guest: they paid off the $16.4 billion fine because they had recall information from regulators. we are in a strange time were there are many investigations ongoing. there's not a lot of action so far. toyota is spending heavily on tents -- on incentives. they out sold general motors for one month which was pretty rare. uço will cost toyota hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions of dollars to get through this period of recalls. they...
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toyota says it's going along with brazil's decision and denies they've done anything wrong. more than 8.5 million toyota vehicles recalled worldwide because of safety problems. >>> new fundraising reports show democrats outraise republicans in march. the three democratic campaign committees, d.n.c., d.s.c.c., and the dccc raised $29 million in the month. major republican committees raised $24 million in this key mid-term election year. >>> one thing is for sure, democrats and republicans both are still putting the party in political party. correspondent james rosen hit the town to show us where a lot of the big donor contributions are going! >> reporter: plush hotel, corporate jet, elaborate floral arrangeles, not the things you associate with winning elections but the forms show the democratic and republican national committees sending lop-sided funds on staff needs and lavish lusry items. dnc spent $60 million or 60% of the total revenue on administrative and fundraising costs and the rnc posted higher totals. >> these are tips, these are gym memberships. we see a variety
toyota says it's going along with brazil's decision and denies they've done anything wrong. more than 8.5 million toyota vehicles recalled worldwide because of safety problems. >>> new fundraising reports show democrats outraise republicans in march. the three democratic campaign committees, d.n.c., d.s.c.c., and the dccc raised $29 million in the month. major republican committees raised $24 million in this key mid-term election year. >>> one thing is for sure, democrats and...
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i wish i could be the maytag repair man waiting for the phone call, but we're more like toyota. >> i appreciate you being here. i very much acknowledge the great results on recruitment. that is a clear sign that the right climate has returned to the civil rights division. we have heard and you have told us about the regular meetings between the career attorneys and the political appointments, so that you have a seamless system, taking the best advice from the career attorneys. we very much appreciate that and applaud your efforts in that regard. i also appreciate that you started with fair lending appeared in these economic times, -- i also appreciate that he started with their lending. -- i also appreciate that you started with fair lending. we did not want to create a climate that is irresponsible -- ss politic i ss politicizati you go back to before world war ii where we had housing programs administered by f.h.a. and the color coding was adapted in red-lining which had at least tried to be justified based pop economic realities but what it did is hold down a class of people. the
i wish i could be the maytag repair man waiting for the phone call, but we're more like toyota. >> i appreciate you being here. i very much acknowledge the great results on recruitment. that is a clear sign that the right climate has returned to the civil rights division. we have heard and you have told us about the regular meetings between the career attorneys and the political appointments, so that you have a seamless system, taking the best advice from the career attorneys. we very...